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Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Dose Optimization of Cefiderocol during Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Eric Wenzler, David A. Butler, Xing Tan, Takayuki Katsube, Toshihiro Wajima

Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 2021

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The need for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in critically ill patients with serious infections is associated with clinical failure, emergence of resistance, and excess mortality. These poor outcomes are attributable in large part to subtherapeutic antimicrobial exposure and failure to achieve target pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) thresholds during CRRT. Cefiderocol is a novel siderophore cephalosporin with broad in vitro activity against resistant pathogens and is often used to treat critically ill patients, including those receiving CRRT, despite the lack of data to guide dosing in this population. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the PK and PD of cefiderocol during in vitro and in vivo CRRT and provide optimal dosing recommendations. METHODS: The PK and dialytic clearance of cefiderocol was evaluated via an established in vitro CRRT model across various modes, filter types, and effluent flow rates. These data were combined with in vivo PK data from nine patients receiving cefiderocol while receiving CRRT from phase III clinical trials. Optimal dosing regimens and their respective probability of target attainment (PTA) were assessed via an established population PK model with Bayesian estimation and 1000-subject Monte Carlo simulations at each effluent flow rate. RESULTS: The overall mean sieving/saturation coefficient during in vitro CRRT was 0.90 across all modes, filter types, effluent flow rates, and points of…

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